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Cox, n.2|kɒks|
The name of an amateur fruit-grower of the first half of the 19th century, used in the possessive of a variety of orange pippin, or an apple of this variety; also ellipt.
1860R. Hogg Fruit Man. 5 Cox's Orange Pippin... Medium sized, roundish-ovate, and regular in its outline... A first-rate dessert apple. 1866[see pippin 2]. 1884[see orange n.1 3 b]. 1920E. A. Bunyard Handbk. Hardy Fruits 43 Cox's Orange..Dessert, November to March..Raised in 1825, by Mr. Cox, a retired brewer of Colnbrook Lawn, near Slough, and introduced by Mr. Charles Turner, about 1850. 1934New Statesman 15 Dec. 901/1 He can obtain a Cox from the fruit shop at Victoria Station. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 17/1 Cox's remain a good sale at firm values. 1962Times 22 Oct. 11/4 An apple, even if it is a Cox's Orange, is not worth any great sum of money. Ibid. 25 Oct. 7/3 Trays of Coxes grown by Mr. G. N. Horne. |